Creating your garden plan is easier than you might think. I will walk you through the process of planning your garden bed out for the upcoming growing season so you know exactly how many plants you can fit in your space and can go seed shopping.
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Hey my friend you have a rised garden bed and are not fully sure what to plant on how many plant you can fit into this garden bed for the upcoming season then this video is for you this is part two of my garden planning series for this
Year where I walk you through step by- step how to plan out your garden if you’ve missed video number one I’ll have a link in here so you you are able to go back and watch this one today we’re talking all about how to make an actra
Plan for your garden beds to know how many plants like how many tomato plants you can fit in it so that you then know how many seats you can buy in all those seats cataloges which are coming in the mail by the day right now so it’s always
Important to really know how many plants you can fit in there otherwise um you either have too many or too little at the end so it’s really important to make a plan and it’s really fun in the middle of January to think about what you are
Going to grow in the summer so tag along and let’s plan together here so what is really important to know know is how large is your space so if you haven’t done it I want you to pause this video here take a measuring tape and go out to
Your garden space and measure it exactly on how much space you have because that’s really important to then go and understand the sizing and how many plant we can actually fit into it so once you have the measurements it is important to then draw a gardening plan or a plan to
Scale somewhere what I do is I use my garden journal for it I have a digital version on my iPad which we will see and we take along with it but I also have and that is very new and yes I got a pluet here but I also have a paper
Version as I heard your feedback over the last year that not everybody loves to do it digitally on an iPad so I created a paper version with 200 pages of beautiful garden journal to really be a companion along the season and it has a gardening planning section in here as well so
Where you have a lot of space there we go where we have a lot of space to draw out your gardening plan to size and start planning over here what I will do also for easy EAS of use to share it here in the YouTube video I will do it
On my iPad in the digital version both versions are linked Down Below in the description for you to check out and yeah let’s get going with the garden plan all right so here I have my digital garden journal where I have a rough draft of my garden measurements for all
My uh beds so the large L’s on the outside they are all my cat flower garden beds and the beds on the bottom or in in the middle portion are all my vegetable bats so for those ones we are now making a plan and let’s start with the easy one
So let’s start with our large raised bed which is for our vegetables um they are 4×8 in my garden and what is great with a 4×8 bed it’s like clear feet um in E either direction so we have here 32 square fet of gardening space with those
Square feet and you can see here that I have the GD already marked on the bed as well with that square foot grid What enables us to do is to think about it a little bit in like an um a Lego approach on how many plants we can fit in there
Because the square foot gardening method has some guidance on how many plants you can fit in each square and let let me give you some examples of how many plants um fit in a square foot so it depends of course on the type of plant for example a Peppa plant is only one
Per square foot but then when we think about other plants which are smaller and don’t take up that much space for example like lettuce like a a head of lettuce you can put four in one square then when we even think a little bit um smaller like radishes you can fit nine
Radishes into a square and even smaller like carrots because they’re like growing deep but not wide right you could fit 12 or not 12 16 in a square so you you think of it as like little teeny tiny squares and how you divide the space further and further and that is a
Really really great of tool I can recommend I’ve linked some resources below where you can look up some additional uh square foot um guidances for your vegetables where it goes a little bit um in different directions is when you look up how many squares or how much space you need for tomatoes there
It really determines a little bit on like what type of tomato you are growing how how you you plan on Let It Grow and I’ll show you um right here a couple of my examples on how to grow it but let’s get going here um from the moment we
Have the grd in here what we are able to do is to think about how many plants we want to have and the cool thing with this digital garden journal is that I have um here PL stickers so I want to grow my tomato um bed here and what I do
And that I’ve done now for years and it has worked very well I grow my tomatoes up a string trellis so they are growing vertically I don’t let them grow very very wide and bushy they are very strongly pruned but grow up tall so to have one per square foot has worked very
Very well for me so and those are my indeterminant ones so they grow tall and produce all season long so those ones I typically have about um six or eight in it um then we go into the determinant ones and that is where I give them more space so
Um I love love love to grow pasta sauce so um what we do is last year I grew I think eight in total paste tomato varieties and that was wonderfully they are the determinant variety which typically grows um not as tall supposedly last year they were taller than were indeterminant I still don’t
Know why but oh well um but they are supposed to T grow not as tall and the fruit comes pretty much in one major swoop you will still have some fruit set afterwards but uh the main swoop comes all at once so you have enough also to
Do the Canon and the Tomato preserving and making all the sauce you want so for that reason um these days I only plant like six AUM varieties um like the indeterminant varieties and more plans on the determinant paste tomato side because that’s how we’re using Tomatoes
Most of the most of the time in celsus and in sauces and marinara sauce and whatsoever so that is truly where most of our tomato consumption goes toward too nevertheless of course course I want to have my tomato sandwiches all for summer so I will still have some
Determined varieties so what I also like to do is then just quickly note down like in DET turn and then three DET and then what we grow on the sides so typically I have always like Peppers flanking it that looks quite crowded when you plant it out in May but once
The tomatoes get size the peppers have more room to grow and for that reason um that works very well and typically I have eggplants on the corners so let me go back here to my stickers I need where do I have my eggplant vegetables there you go no laughes about the eggplant Emoji
Here so one of that and one of that um I’m going back and forth between like two or one um last year I had just one but then I kind of fell in love with like really grilling eggplants again so this year I want to grow
Two and um then let’s go and put the peppers in I always have next to the tomatoes all sweet peppers different type of sweet peppers but all sweet oopsie all sweet peppers um so one per square foot and actually let me move that over here because I want to plant some basil
In between that is the mistake I made last year I had just basil tucked like in the cracks in between and I had a new variety of Basil which turned into bushes so it got a little crowded so for that reason I’m taking a couple Peppa
Plants out giving them a little bit more space between the basil but I always love to swim in copious amounts of Basil if I have too much I make basil Pasto which I love uh the family loves this as well or um I dehydrate it for herbs and
I love also to give like herbs packages away so long story short there is no such a thing as um too much basil so for that reason we’ll um plan some space for the basil but let me go here with the peppers and like two
More and this is a really like if you’re a visual learner this is something what I can really really highly recommend because it’s just so it’s so cute and it’s so easy to remember and so easy to calculate how many you need in the end right so then let me find the
Basil where oh there’s the basil oh basil is large get that one here and Here and here and here and then what I have always on the other end um on the other side of the bed is my ground cherries I love ground cherries to just snack them all along um I always freeze a few to put it in a pie for Thanksgiving or in
The winter or to make jam out of it if you’ve never made ground cherry jam I can so highly recommend it it tastes like sunshine and yeah for that reason like the Aunt Molly ground cherry variety is just something what is on my forever grow list so that comes
Here and here so now we have planned our full bed out and we know exactly what we need so for example now let’s count the peppers we have eight sweet pepper plants which we can fit to eggplants for Basil and two ground cherries I apologize for my cppy
Handwriting but this is how I really go along with the with the planning of U Mar garden beds one by one and really think about what I want to plan um last year I did a lot um spring and then cut it over to summer this year I’m a little
Bit more focusing on Simplicity for my garden um year of 2024 just because now I will be traveling a lot for business so I’m just want to focus on the things we love we take care of without any hassle so for that reason I’ll keep it very simple I don’t have any spring
Succession plans this year um except for some peas but for anything else um it’s just summer crops and we go full on 100% on summer but keeping it simple is always um a good idea to start with so once you have have the plan and really
Know how many plans you need for the space you can go wild and then think about what kind of varieties you want to have right so we have here like six tomato varieties for the indeterminant ones what kind of tomatoes you want my personal forever grows are cheru purple
And black Crim um so I have four spaces left where I can browse and think about if you are not as familiar with seed starting or not as cont into with seed starting I would go um to go at least like two plants per variety so you have
Like if one plant gets damaged or H has something happening to it for whatever reason that you have um at least another one as backup I personally I love to grow a lot of varieties and test a lot of varieties especially as to for tomatoes because there are like a
Million varieties out there um so I have one per each plant um for the um IND determinant but for the determinant I have my um tried and true Plum Perfect and midnight Roma from row 7 seeds are outside of the ones I’m planning to um Grow Again from last year because I love
Them and they did so well for me yep and then the same for the peppers the peppers I’m um completely tossing that game up because the pepper variety which performed well for me the couple years before didn’t do well at all last year in fact none of the peppers did really
Great um they grew without any issues for me the year before I had like some some bugs eating them from the inside out I haven’t seen that um last year luckily but they weren’t very high yielding either so it was like a weird a weird um year so I’m throwing all the
Varieties up in the air and plant some new ones and just see how it goes so that’s the fun with gardening right you can really plant and dream up and grow those varieties which you um feel for and love to one little advice though when you pick your seats I would
Recommend to stay local with your seed companies because they have most likely grown seed and varieties which work well in your region so for us here in New England I love High mowing seeds I love um pine tree garden seeds which are up in Maine High mowing is up in Vermont
Johnny seeds which is um probably one of the largest ones it’s also up in Maine so all of those ones are um really great froan seeds up in um Vermont so try to stay local with your um seed companies for good success with the seeds for your
Region all right so I really hope this video was helpful for you to get a good um plan um for your garden space in place and start to dream of all the varieties you want to grow for this upcoming gardening season so yeah let me know if you have any questions um put
Those ones um in the description below I would love for you to like this video this helping with the algorithm a little bit and then I hope I see you in the part three of the series which will come out probably in two weeks um we have one
Lian’s growing video before that but um in two weeks from now we’ll talk how we take now our garden plan and put this into a seed starting PL so to really break it down now that we know what we want to grow and have um bought the
Varieties how do we we make a plan to really execute on it that we have the seedlings in the right size in the moment we needed for our gardening in the spring so thank you and subscribe and watch another video bye
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Great series! I would love your recipes for ground cherries. I had so many last year many went to waste. Thank you for sharing:)